Improvement in qtrilting-frame and clothes-drier



N. PETERS. PHOTO-LIYHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D. C,

@altr-ni 'dtjijita JOHN G.ISHLER, OF MARTINSVILLE, ILLINOIS.

Letters Patent No. 98,386, dated December 28, 1869.

The Schedule referred to in these Leers Patent and makngpart of the same.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it'known that I, JOHN G. IsHLEn, of Martinsville, in the county of Clark, and in the Stateof Illinois,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Clothes-Driel" and Quilting-Frame.; and

ldo hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear,

and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this speci cation. 1

The nature of my invention consists in. the construction and general arrangement of a combined quilting-frame and clothes-drier, as will be hereinafterv fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which which are, including the feet B B, five feet two inches high. Without the feetfthe posts are .four feet two inches high, two and one-quarter inches wide, and one inch thick.

The feet B B are two feet high on a straight line, and are two and one-quarter inches wide the irst fourteen inches upward. The remaining ten' inches are dressed to a point of one inch from the outside,

` The ten-inch sq'nare is fastened lto the posts in any convenient way, and the bottoms of the feet are cut bevelling, to sit square on the floor. There are three of these feet to each post, fastened, one on theinside, and one on each of the narrow sides of the posts.

The piece C, that forms 'the notch for the centrepiece of the quilt-frame to rest upon, is two and onequarter inches wide, ve inches long, and one and a half inch thick; the notch being cut two and ouequarter inches deep, and three-quarters inch wide from the posts, leaving two and three-quarter inches of solid base to fasten to the posts on the inside by means of glue, screws, or' other suitable means.

The lower ends of the pieces C C, forming the notches, are two feet one and three-quarter inches from the bottom of the feet B B.

From the top of the quilting-frame, when placed in the notched pieces C C, to the centre ofthe irst mortiscs in the posts A A, for cross-bars, the distance is seven inches.

The second mortise is twelve inches from the lower or first one, measuring from centre to centre oi mortises.

The third or top mortise is left open on top, and

the top bar dropped in. These mortises are o n'e and one-half inch long by seven-eighths inch wide.-

The wire hooks c a., that hold the end-pieces of the vquilting-frame when folded up, are fastened on the in-l side oi' posts with staples or screws, and are three, four,lor five inches long.

The cross-bars D, Dl, and D", when in the mortiscs of the posts A A, are fastened by keys bb, of wood or metal. These cross-bars are seven feet eight inches long, one and one-half inch wide, by seven-eighths inch thick. Each bar projects outside ot' the posts one-quarter inch or one-hall' inch, and has ve or more holes, three or four inches apart, ou the riglithand end,

so as to slide the right-hand post toward the left, for the purpose of fitting any-sized quilt.

rlhe holes in the cross-bars on the right-hand side are to key up in when the post is slid up as far as desired. The lower cross-har D is the spool-bar, which is furnished with pins d d, of wood or metal, seven `or twelvein number. By pushing these pins upward, and, pulling therntoward the operator, they will come out.

The holes for the pins d rl are equally divided in space on the top of the lower b n' I), andthe under side of the second bar DI, the holes inthis latter 'bar being bored one-half deeper than those in. the lower bar.

In sliding up the right-hand post A, the spool-pins d d can be removed and set on the outside 'of the post in their places.

The side-rails HH, of quilting-fiamqare seven feet eight inches in length, and one and one-eighth inch square, or one and onefquarter inch square.

'Ihe centre-piece E of the end-rails is twenty-two inches long ou top, two 'and one-quarter inches wide, and one inch thick, the ends being cut with one-half. inch bevel.. l

v'Ihe centre of the centre-piece-E is notchedonequarter inch, the notch heilig the width of the post A. The notch is then put on the post and slid down toits propel' place, and keeps thepcentre-piece from working up 0r down on either side.

There are two hooks e e on the centre-.piece E, one on eachside of the notch, and one inch from the same. The notches on each'end of the centre-pieces E E are formed by a piece, j, on 'each side of the rail, the same width as the centrep'ieces, and are three inches long and one-half thick, the two outside corners of each piecej` cut oii or rounded.

one inch thick, having three or four hooks i on each piece, dropped down on the inside low enough so that they will not interfere with the ar-m while quilting.

There are from four to seven notches in the endpieces G G of the end-rails, each notch being cut one and one-eighth or one and one-quart`er inch wide and deep, for the side-rails H H to t in, s'aid side-*rails being provided with any desired numbers of hooks lv h.

The quilt is fastened on the hooks, and, when necessary, is rolled up as far as quilted, and then the sitllle-drails dropped into the notches, and so on until iin- 1s e .lhe keys m m, across the notches ou the end-rails ,G G, are to keep the side-rails H H fromI dropping ont when the frame is folded up. These keys are fastened by two, three, or four staples on the spaces between the notches in the rails G G, said notches to be equally divided in the space of twenty-one or twentytwo inches. 4

The end-rails, composed of the centre-pieces E E and end-pieces G G, are six feet long, and the endpieces are connected withl thecentre-piece by means of a common strap or gate-hinge,- or other suitable hinge.

The frame th us constructed may as Well be usedrfor a clothes-drier or a quilting-frame; but in making a combined quilting-name and'clothes-drier eveny Workman must make his own dimensions, if it is to be lighter or heavier, larger or smaller than the above description and dimensions specify'.

Having thus fully described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is f 1. In combination with the mortised posts A A, the cross-bars D D1 D2, having holes at one end, the keys b b, and spool-pins d (l, all as and for the purposes Witnesses:

ROBERT D. KENDALL, SAMUEL M. SNENELY. 

